IRIX 6.5 update

Hi all,
I'm "new" user of IRIX, and i have a simple question

Can i upgrade my current installation with IRIX 6.5.4 directly to IRIX
6.5.19 ?

Thanks of any infomation

Davis.

DaviS* <davis@spamsux.it> wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi all,
> I'm "new" user of IRIX, and i have a simple question
>
> Can i upgrade my current installation with IRIX 6.5.4 directly to IRIX
> 6.5.19 ?
>[/color]

yes.

pop in 6.5.19 overlays, fire up swmgr and away you go...

google could have told you this...

IRIX Central <info@irixcentral.com> wrote:
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>> Can i upgrade my current installation with IRIX 6.5.4 directly to IRIX
>> 6.5.19 ?
>>[/color][/color]
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> yes.[/color]
[color=blue]
> pop in 6.5.19 overlays, fire up swmgr and away you go...[/color]

erm - which version of IRIX was it, that destroyed the PROM on the octane
and rendering the machine useless when doing a live upgrade this way ?

just curious ...

I think the ver of irix that does this is 6.5.22 or 6.5.21. I have 6.5.21
and won't install it as I don't know if it's the kiss of death or not.

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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 [email]guest@freeterm18.ic-d.ca[/email] wrote:
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> IRIX Central <info@irixcentral.com> wrote:
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> >> Can i upgrade my current installation with IRIX 6.5.4 directly to IRIX
> >> 6.5.19 ?
> >>[/color][/color]
>[color=green]
> > yes.[/color]
>[color=green]
> > pop in 6.5.19 overlays, fire up swmgr and away you go...[/color]
>
> erm - which version of IRIX was it, that destroyed the PROM on the octane
> and rendering the machine useless when doing a live upgrade this way ?
>
> just curious ...
>[/color]

<guest@freeterm18.ic-d.ca> wrote:[color=blue]
> erm - which version of IRIX was it, that destroyed the PROM on the octane
> and rendering the machine useless when doing a live upgrade this way ?
>
> just curious ...[/color]

That's 6.5.22. You need patch 5086.

Lewis Saunders wrote:[color=blue]
>
> <guest@freeterm18.ic-d.ca> wrote:[color=green]
> > erm - which version of IRIX was it, that destroyed the PROM on the octane
> > and rendering the machine useless when doing a live upgrade this way ?
> >
> > just curious ...[/color]
>
> That's 6.5.22. You need patch 5086.[/color]

It was definitely not .22. I did the last 10 or so releases all live,
every 3 months one, on the Octane I am typing this, and I never got
in trouble. Well with one of them, SGI Belgium told me I must have been
very lucky, as I was one of the few who succeeded in doing it without
ruining
the Octane prom, but it definitely was not .22.

From what I can find from the patch lists on SGI, it must have been .20
(I had
to install patch 5113 to be sure).

You need patch 5086 to go live from a .20 or less release to .21 or
higher.

Rudi